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Photography Huia Takau

Remembering Together: Scottish Borders

Collective acts of reflection, remembrance, hope and healing with communities across Scotland

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Tartan in the Tweed

Calling wild swimmers across the Scottish Borders

Join in

THREE FREE EVENTS - 2024

  • Sun 9 June, 10am-12 noon, Dookits, Peebles

  • Sat 17 August, 10am-12 noon, Innerleithen, meet at Toll Wood car park

  • Sun 25 August, 10am-12 noon, meet at Dryburgh Suspension Bridge, Melrose

Movement artist Rhiana Laws and photographer Huia Takau  are inviting wild swimmers to gather at locations along the river Tweed to share, remember & create. 

Why we swim

Wild swimming became a refuge and lifeline for many Borderers during the pandemic offering health benefits, connection with nature and other humans. The legacy thrives through continued friendships and wellbeing. Join other wild swimmers to reflect upon what brought you, and still brings you, to the water.

You're invited

Swimmers will be guided through a memorable, respectful and creative experience involving making nature art, gentle moving, and bringing the Borders tartan to life using huge lengths of brightly coloured ribbon in the water of the Tweed. These events are to honour what brought folk to the water during the pandemic and will be captured by Huia Takau's stunning visual storytelling, shared in an online photographic gallery. (Photographic consent is optional and will be respected. Those not wishing to be photographed are welcome to join in).

Accessible

Locations: Dookits at Haylodge Park, Peebles PLUS 2 other locations TBC. Each location will seek to provide near by parking, pathways and easy entry/exit points to the water. 

Remembering Together: the Scottish Borders is a Two Destination Language project commissioned by Greenspace Scotland with funding from Scottish Government.

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